Monthly Archives: September 2009

Jono Turning 40 – Wishlist Predictable

By popey | Published: September 10, 2009

I saw this tweet from the Ubuntu community Manager, Jono Bacon, and thought I’d take a look at his wishlist.

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Of course he’s probably changed it by the time you look at it now I said that!

Posted in Fun, Ubuntu | 9 Comments

Working Around blip.tv Video Conversion Failures

By popey | Published: September 7, 2009

One of the things that’s important to me for Ubuntu Screencasts is that they are accessible to people on non-Ubuntu platforms. That basically translates to Windows and OSX, but could also mean set top boxes, media players etc.

One reason I like blip.tv is that they will take the Ogg Theora/Vorbis video I create in …

Posted in Advocacy, Linux, Screencast, Ubuntu | 11 Comments

A Video Editor that Just Works

By popey | Published: September 2, 2009

After my troubles this morning and the subsequent helpful comments from readers, I’m pleased to say I’ve worked around the pausing issue with recordmydesktop. Here’s the command line I used to record a Window hard up against the top left of my display.

recordmydesktop –width 1024 –height 768 –full-shots –fps 15 –channels 1 –device hw:2,0 …

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The Pain of Screencasting on Linux

By popey | Published: September 2, 2009

Some will say that screencasting on linux is easy. You just start recordmydesktop and stop when you’re finished. Upload the result to the internet and you’re done! Whilst this may be true in certain circumstances there are cases where this breaks. I encountered one today.

My goal is to create a short (less than 10 …

Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 34 Comments